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on Air In Fireside Chat at 9:30 mil mm mm; nnr FTninY aaip fn nn GIRL'S FATAL LEAP. CAUGHT BY TELEVISION Plunge Picked Up by Accident i Vll A full complement of network stations, the number will run i UJ ill ru 1 I IU I llWIIIi uzi i vu uuu PART OF II. S. Nine Are Dead in Montana Flood close to 325, augmented by at least seven short wave units for world-wide transmission, will be connected into the White House tonight for President Roosevelt's fireside chat, the twelfth since he took office in 1933. The Broadcast stations comprise the N.

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The president Is to begin speaking at 9:30. try baked yesterday as the first heat wave of slimmer sent the Informed persons expect the mercury into the 90's. U. S. Industry Edges Upward Indices Show Amazed Trend-Gaugers Study Advances While Others Hail Figures as Proof Recession at Bottom Temperature readings generally were above normal except in the southeastern states, Arizona, Utah and Nevada.

A high of 103 was report at Alma, Neb. Other parts of the state, which now is in the midst of its wheat harvest, reported president to discuss the lending-spending program and the work of Congress. GROUP TO BEGIN SURVEHT ONCE U. S. and English Plans Differ readings in the 90 s.

One heat death was reported in Iowa. The mercury shot up to 93 at Des Moines. 100 in California jMpgMi i. 1 wji.in II liautHI Jkfr I. 1.

mm UUH.HH.IBij. I- WM.ryvt 1 It C'V' QD "a -A Vv "81 mnwwyA littr lill, i ill ll l'l' WfflW ln (1 1 Chicagoans sweltered under a bright sun which brought an 88 By PAUL D. GESNER (Associated Press Financial Writer) NEW YORK, June 23. P) Wall street trend-causers degree high reading in early aft ernoon. Upstate New York tempera burned the midnight oil in downtown brokerage houses to- turts were in the high 80 s.

The 6 p. m. reading in New York city nignt, seeking clews as to whether the past four days of rising stock prices in fact hail the passing of the recession's was 71. rock-bottom low in price levels. In northern California, Fresno For four days now, the "bulls have been in command saw the mercury climb to 100 and Sacramento reported a top of 98.

of business on the New York stock exchange. The Associated Press average of prices of 60 representative stocks has A season record of 88.7 was re ported at Indianapolis and the risen in the four days $5.30 to $44, the highest since March 5. Of the $5.30 gain, $1.30 was added today, the fourth day of briskly advancing quotations. weather bureau there said no re lief was expected before late to day. Other high temperatures in eluded: Minneapolis 89, Cleve land 85, Milwaukee 84, and St.

Trend-gaugers tonight are asking themselves this question: "Will the recovery hold?" Since spring, aside from occasional short-lived rallies and dips, stock prices until this week had been drifting. Louis 94. In contrast, Annapolis was vis NEW YORK, June 23. The president's commission to study employer-employe relations abroad will get down to work immediately with the initial meeting set for July 1 in London where they will discover it takes a lot of law to supervise the British industrial family. The ink was hardly dry on the members' appointments announced at Hyde Park yesterday by President Roosevelt before those now in this country either sailed for Europe or prepared to leave within the next few days.

Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric company, was on his way today aboard the Queen Mary; Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, New York regional director of the social security board, planned to leave tomorrow on the Statendam, and Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of the University of Wisconsin law school, was en route from a Canadian port. Already in Europe are Robert Watt, representative of the NEW YORK, June 23.

(JP) A mobile television transmitter picked up a street scene of life nd death today the plunge of a young woman from a Rockefeller Center skyscraper speeding clear Images of her fatal fall to a Radio City studio screen before which a little group of technicians sat in shocked silence. By a tragic accident, Miss Marian Perloff appeared in the strangest experiment television has ever recorded. Just as she dropped past the sixth floor, the camera picked her up, against the white stone background of the Time and Life building, and followed her to her death below. Saw Body Fallinr The transmitter was being used to make test shot in the Rockefeller plaza area and was feeding its images not on the air but by cable to the studios. O.

B. Hanson, chief engineer for the National Broadcasting company, by portable telephone had just directed Ross Plastid, who was at his camera atop his motor-bus in the street below, to make a shot of the front of the R. C. A. building.

Complying, Plastid turned his lens back toward the plaza. "When I turned my camera toward the Time and Life building," he said, "I saw a falling body. My camera picked her up as she passed the sixth floor and I followed her down." Hanson's group, waiting before the screen in the studio, had turned attention elsewhere momentarily, and missed the first part of this extraordinary scene. "The first we knew that anything had happened," he said, "was when we heard a sound like a pistol shot. Turning to the screen we could see people running and before they had crowded around the body we could get a glimpse of it as it lay on the pavement." iJMiss Perlolf, who was a stenographer and clerk for the Girl Scouts, dropped from a window of the corporation's eleventh floor offices.

She had been back at work only a week after a nervous breakdown that had followed an unhappy love affair, her fel-lowworkers said. Some 2,000 persons gathered bout the body as it lay on the street, darting from nearly every door in the vast Rockefeller Center development. HERO'S WIDOW MAY LOSE HOME ited by hail and more than an inch of rainfall. The highest tem These three men pleaded innocent in federal court at New York to charges of espionage which climaxed the largest peacetime spy investigation in t't t- States. The three, held in $25,000 bail, are left to right: Guenther Gustave Rumrich, former U.

S. Army sergeant; Otto H. Voss, airplane mechanic, and Erich Glaser, U. S. Army private, ihese men ana 15 other persons are charged with obtaining and transmitting to 'Germany information on the defense of the United States.

They're shown leaving court, jaunty and self-possessed. perature in Kentucky was 86. Montana Cloudburst Kills Nine Persons More complete figures on the stock markets will be found on page 21 of The Times this morning. HAVRE, June 23. (P) Nine persons drowned and a baby was missing tonight in cloudburst floodwaters that surged into CIRCUS CALLED OFF AS WORKERS DEBATEPAY CUT Show May Return To Sarasota SCRANTON, Jun 23.

(P) A wage dispute beneath thr big top held the RingHng Barmlm and here tonight at the end of a second showless day as star performers and laborers debated whether to north-central Montana rivers out of normally dry coulees and JUDGE PONDERS MAN'S RIGHT TO TELL STORY eulches. Farmers evacuated their homes in the valley flats of the Milk $8,100 SLASHED FROM '39 BUDGET BY CITY COUNCIL Police Department Cut $5,000 "Spies" Confessed Plot, Is Claim accept pay reductions. American Federation of Labor in the international labor office at Geneva; William H. Davis, New York attorney, and William Ellison Chalmers, assistant United States labor commissioner at Plans Are Different It was understood the other members, Charles Hook, president of the American Rolling Mill company, Henry I. Harri-man, former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and Miss Marion Dickerman, a close friend of Mrs.

Roosevelt and principal of the Todhunter school of New York, would leave within a few days. The nine members representing business, industry, labor, law State and federal mediators, who arrived late today, conferred with Ralph Whitehead, executive secretary of the American Federation of Actors, Mayor Fred J. Huester. nnH iha hoA Seven Men Dead And Five Badly Hurt by Blast HOBBS, June 23. (P.

men including prominent New -Mexico financier, were killed and five seriously injured today in the premature explosion of a nitroglycerin time bomb with which a drilling crew was perparing to "shoot" an oil well near here. The dead: George A. Kaseman, about 65, president of the Albuquer-. que, N. National Trust and Savings bank.

H. A. Greer, gauger for the shooting crew; J. T. Broughton, a derrickman; Forrest Huston, rigman; Charles Wrigley, rig-man; Alex Blair, shooter's helper; V.

B. Peck, shooter; Alex Blair, shooter's helper; V. Peck, shooter. The injured: Fred Luthey, Albuquerque, N. vice president of the Albuquerque National Trust and Savings bank.

Herman Crile, Roswell, N. attorney; Jack Starkey, Hobbs, superintendent of the Two-State Drilling company; J. P. Headley, Roswell, geologist; Ole Johnson, rigman. circus, John Ringling North.

Performers Accept Cut The mediators, Edward C. McDonald of the United States de- Dartment nf lahnr onH a and the general public will study not only industrial-labor conditions in Great Britain as origi nally planned, but also employer- Lambert of the Pennsylvania department of labor and industry, declined to comment on progress at the first conference, but said the meetings would continue. About 100 of the performers decided to accept a 25 per cent wage reduction which North said was necessary to keep the "biggest show on earth" going. river, swollen by the coulee torrents. The towns of Malta and Harlem built bulwarks against the advancing floodstream.

Searchers found the bodies of eight flood victims in Gravelley coulee, near Laredo, 12 miles south of Havre. Homes and buildings in the coulee were carried from eight to 10 miles by the sudden flood that trapped these victims. They were: Emil De Haan, his wife, and three of their daughters, 2, 5 and 8 years; Charles Pratt, a farmer; Herman Wendt; and James Brown, Duluth, employed recently on De Haan's farm. Rain Follows Cloudburst An infant, another daughter of the De Haans, still was missing. A sister of De Haan was married in May to Anthony J.

Fok-ker of Amsterdam, Holland, son of the airplane designer. Another sister is Mrs. Andre A. Briester of Douglastown, Long Island. N.

Y. Fred Tillghman, 60, of Homeland, a farm security worker, drowned near Zurich, 16 miles east of Havre. The floods in the Havre territory followed cloudbursts last night and continued hard rains today. Butte and Livingston in southern Montana also were hit by heavy rains. Near Zurich a half mile section of the Great Northern railroad's main line track was washed out.

A Great Northern bridge near Laredo was weakened by flood battering and the road stopped all service on its branch from Havre to Great Falls. The first flood rolled through Havre last night in a wall of water five feet high. Water was hip deep in some homes in the eastern section of Havre, a city of 16,000. They conferred with laborers canvas mpn trnu- i others who had voted to continue their strike the nnti cut. The Iflhnrpr employe relations in Sweden.

Appointment of the commission focused attention on the differences between 'he "Magna Carta" of American labor the labor relations act of 1935, commonly called the Wagner act, and that of Great Britain, the trade unions act of 1927. Great Britain has dozens of other labor laws, but the 1927 act is of prime importance. Circumstances attendant on the birth of the Wagner act and the 1927 British act contrast sharply. In Great Britain, it was a general strike involving 2,730,000 men which prompted the trade unions act when the British government found it necessary to curb labor union activiites. In the United States, the Wagner act was the product of the new deal's promise to write into law further guarantees to working people.

The big pile of British labor laws suggests the British have accumulated a store of knowledge willing to load the circus trains Seven Aviators Killed in France so mat me animals and equipment COUlri hp taUon Koolr ter quarters at Sarasota, Florida, ii i-ninn wouia permit them to ride the train back to their homes There's no question but that this week's sudden, sharp upturn in share values took Wall street by surprise. Some analysts had been "calling the turn" for the middle of Jw, predicting that ut the middle next mnth tU; stock market Is its recession then start slowly upward. These analysts began blinking In wonder on Monday, and they are still blinking, for the "turn," If the present "bull" run-up is a lurn, came three weeks ahead of their expectations. No Stock for Sale The best explanation offered by analysis for the current sudden upswoop in stocks is that the market was in a "sold out" condition Monday when broad buying set in. For many weeks activity had been dull, traders were sitting idly on the sidelines, and there was no stock for sale.

Even the bad break in the rails last week failed to generate much general selling. Potential stock buyers were Just sitting and waiting for something to happen in the listless mart. Wall streeters say that when a few buyers started acquiring shares Monday, they found the markets so thin, and offerings so scarce, that prices' went up easily. R'smS prices, in turn, generated short covering. And activity attracted still more buying.

And like a rolling snowball, the activity grew Into three consecutive better-than-a-million share days, followed by today's better than 2,400,000 shares, all on the upside. However, to one group of observers, the upsurge in stock prices wasn't wholly surprising. Certain indices of industrial activity this week showed the third consecutive weekly upturn industrial operations. The gains in activity were small, but nevertheless they were gains. "Is business actually on the upgrade?" This is the question the whole country asks.

Trade Revival in Fall If it is true that the stock market discounts actual business trends three or four months in advance, then it is very possible that the current spurt in stocks may be the harbinger of an orderly business revival of modest magnitude in September or October, some analysist says. The advance in prices of such basic commodities as lead, tin, zinc, export copper, rubber, silk, and hides, is pointed to as evidence that the stock market is not alone in anticipating possible expanded demand for goods and materials at some future date. Even wher.t prices, hampered by the impending bumper harvest, and cotton values, depressed by a probf.ble heavier carryover at the end of the current season, have chalked up cumulative gains over the past fornight. But in the final analysis, most trend-gaugers admit they are guessing at the market outlook. Time alone has the answer, and time will reveal it in what stocks do tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.

Stocks Bid Up From $1 to $5 During Day NEW YORK. June 23.yr) Wall street's "bull" field day swept into its fourth session today in one of the swiftest share mar- in me soutn. Show Called Off The strike brought a cancellation Of the evpnina Mrhrm.u. i- iii.iiii a last night, and today's two per- luimances in nearby Wilkes-Barre were called off. The strikers made a nearby ball park their hnmp Mnet See LABOR, Pace 11, Col.

1. TOURS, France, June 23. (fP) Seven army flyers perished today in the crash of a twin-motored military plane during a night training flight over central France. Bodies of five officers of the air general staff, a radio operator and mechanic were found in the wreckage. Farmers in the vicinity said the plane seemed to explode at a low altitude, then fell in flames.

Parachutes were found half-opened. UNIFORM HIGHWAYS ORLANDO, June 23. (P) Uniform highways through Florida were urged at the fifth annual State Safety Conference here today by Comptroller J. M. Lee who said motorists are paying more than enough to assure them safe roads.

slept last night in the grandstand. NEW YORK, June 23, (TV-Former G-Man Leon G. Turrou today offered magazine articles signed by his recent boss, J. Edgar Hoover, to prove his contention that he is privileged to publish what he uncovered about foreign spies in the United States. He attached the articles to an affidavit opposing the govern ment's application for a temporary injunction to restrain the New York Post from publishing Turrou's articles on the current spy hunt, which he directed until his resignation Monday.

Eighteen individuals were indicted as spy suspects. "There exists no pledge, no agreement, no rule, no statute and no regulation which forbids publishing any of the facts acquired by me in the course of my investigation or facts testified to by me as a witness before the federal grand jury." the ace sleuth's affidavit stated. Decision Reserved The affidavit denied that Turrou would publish anything that would hinder the government's investigation. Turrou said he had been advised the case was without precedent. After a long debate on freedom of the press, contempt of court and obstruction of justice, Federal Judge Murray Hulbert reserved decision.

A temporary restraining order was continued. The Post, which had planned to start the series today, advertised it as the "authentic inside story behind the United States grand jury indictments of 14 German officials." Turrou, who helped solve the Lindbergh kidnap murder, was the agent chiefly responsible for the recent indictment of 18 persons, including 14 now in Germany, on espionage charges. Judge Hulbert agreed with counsel that the case was without precedent. "It is not so much a question of freedom of the press," said the couft, "but whether persons engaged by the government to perform an act can publish information obtained by that act." No Right to Sell Evidence Assistant United States Attorney John 1 W. Burke, said "he (Turrou) obtained this information while in the employ of the United States.

He doesn't own it. He has it in his care, but he hain't the right to sell it, to reveal it." Simon H. Rifkind, counsel for Turrou replied: "Talk about trying the case in newspapers and giving away clues and leads and information I have here a book of clippings from every newspaper in this city, and I would like to make lt an exhibit in this case. One of the most prolific sources of the news contained in these clippings is J. Edgar Hoover, who was Mr.

Turrou's chief. "If it was all right for Mr. Hoover to get his name in the See SPIES, Page 11, Col. S. During a second councilmanic conference last night, city fathers aided and abetted by City Manager Glenn V.

Leland, got out the big khife and really started cutting things from the tentative 1938-'39 budget, which called for a gross total of $222,451 in excess of 1937-'38 appropriations. The police department came in for the biggest slicing with a $5,000 cut from a $19,111 item for additional salaries. The knife struck again to lop off another $1,000 from the same department's item for repairs and continued on through to a $100 item for sta- tionery. -The officials were somewhat eerier on the fire department, slashing only $2,200, which would have purchased a new car for the chief at $1,400 and a utility truck for $800. An item of $12,000 for a new pumper was allowed to remain, when the City Manager explained the cylinder blocks on the present pumper are cracked.

He said the apparatus might fail any time during the course of a serious fire. This item will not be a direct expenditure this year, as provision is made for only $4,000 to make the first payment. The balance of the cost will be divided over a period of three years. The recreation department tame in for a $200 cut on an item for traveling expenses, while the publicity bureau's provision for a $600 increase in the director's salary was slashed. When the evening's work was summed up, total cuts of $8,100 had been made.

Manager Cheers Conferees The manager then added a bit of glamour to the before desolate budget picture by announcing that two items totalling $128,000 for federal aid were in the budget, but in reality did not belong there. He explained that $100,000 represented the city's share toward the housing and slum clearance project, while $28,000 included W. P. A. sewer and street work, He said bonds would be issued for both items and in turn would be taken over by the government, thus making them an asset rather than a liability so far as the present budget is concerned.

A final computation brought the net overage on the present budget down to a mere $87,900. This the cpuncilmen explained could be absorbed through economies in city departments from now until the end of the fiscal year in They said this would be possible from the fact that present expenditures have only nipped at the $100,000 surplus from last year. W. P. A.

ALLOTMENTS WASHINGTON, Junt 23. (-It t-The public works administration, swinging Into the second day of President Roosevelt's lendlng-spending program, made allotments totaling $29,592,081 today. GONE WITH THE WIND NEW YORK, June 23. (JP) A little gray-haired widow of a naval hero sobbed tonight that she might wrap herself in an American flag and resist any government effort to oust her from her home. In the same mail two weeks ago, she received two letters from the government.

One said they were naming a new destroyer in honor of her husband, Lt. Mons Monssen, who beat out a fire with his bare hands on the battleship Missouri off Florida in 1904 and prevented a powder magazine explosion. The other said the Federal Home Owners Loan corporation intended to sell her little house In Brooklyn In foreclosure proceedings. Publicity attending the coincidence gave momentary hope that the foreclosure might be avoided, but today the H. O.

L. C. in Washington said the law allowed no more leeway than payment moratoriums already granted. "I don't know where to turn," Mrs. Monssen sobbed.

"Representative O'Toole appealed to the president's secretary and the Highlawn Taxpayers association telegraphed to the president, but there has been no word no word at all." The H. O. L. C. reported she had been loaned $7,118 in 1934, on which no principal, interest or tax payments had been made, and that a month ago the debt totaled $8,270.

on which she had offered to pay $420 a year. She gets a pension of $30 a month and her daughter earns $24 a week on a W. P. A. job.

The H. O. L. C. said it would "certainly make every effort to help her find suitable living quarters," but she was not consoled.

'Til get an American flag, if I have to," she said, "and put it around me and dare them to put me out." FORMER COLLEGE PRESIDENT DIES or 1 A few workmen remained on duty to feed the animals and guard the equipment. Many of the strikers were sworn in today as special police to guard the circus grounds and trains. Last night's decision by th performers and crews to go on strike brought confusion to the saw-dust rings. Reserved seat purchasers lined up before the box offices to demand their money back. Others who had purchased general admission tickets and had no receipt stubs protested to police that they had been unable to get their money, back.

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Police Chief Marion LauKhtprs said they were Identified as Frank Branch, 10, and a 12-ycar-oId negro, Fletcher Crum. Laughter said the Branch boy's body found atop a building about 200 feet from the scene of the explosion. The body of the nccro rr, he said, was found more than 6(X) feet In the opposite direction. Laughters said lt wm bf-licvM the boys dropped a lighted roclt Into the empty tank cur, caujung the gas fumci to explodt. HOLLYWOOD, June 23.

Norma Shearer and Clark Gable will play the leading roles In "Gone With the Wind," it was' learned at Selznlck International studio today. Both are under contract to M. M. studios. The latter will release the Production Is scheduled for next December.

Just about the time Margaret Mitchell's lengthy tome was catching on with the public, Selznick bought the screen rights for $50,000. MONMOUTH, 111., June 23 Dr. Thomas Hanna Mc-Michael, president emeritus of Monmouth College, died tonight. He was 75 and had retired in 1936 after being president 33 years. He was moderator of the United Presbyterian Church in 1915.

See BUSINESS, Taga 11, Col. 7,.